Is Israel collapsing before its centenary? In this episode of Palestine This Week, we examine warnings from a former Israeli major general that the state may not exist by 2048, citing internal fracture and growing international isolation. We analyse how the language of ceasefire now functions to manage, rather than end, Palestinian death and destruction, while dismantling Israeli claims used to justify the high civilian toll. 

The episode investigates evidence that prohibited weapons have erased thousands of bodies in Gaza, the killing of a 14-year-old boy left to bleed to death in the illegally occupied West Bank amid accelerated settler expansion, signs of democratic retrenchment in the UK through the criminalisation of Palestine solidarity, and a looming scandal inside Human Rights Watch over the Palestinian right of return.

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction & Overview
01:52 Ceasefire as cover for continuing genocide 
08:14 Hearing voices from Gaza
09:30 Gaza and the collapse of legal and moral limits on killing
18:03 Urban warfare and the deliberate devaluing of Palestinian life
22:13 The killing of 14-year-old Jadallah Jadallah in the West Bank
32:15 Christian Zionism and the exodus of Christians from the Holy Land
38:35 Former Israeli general warns of Israel’s collapse by 2048
46:52 Human Rights Watch shelves right of return report
54:19 UK jury acquits Palestine Action defendants

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